Highly reviewed resilience books

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do focuses on families, showing them how to raise mentally stable and flexible children. Amy Morin, the writer who defined the characteristics that mentally powerful people share, is now providing adults the resources they need to become teachers for mental power. Although other books tell parents what to do, Amy tells parents what not to do, which she believes is just as necessary to raise mentally stable children. Children will thrive psychologically, mentally, behaviorally, and academically if they have the resources they need to cope with difficulties in their daily lives.

Resilience is the acquired ability to deal with any degree of adversity, be it the minor annoyances of ordinary life or the hardships and sorrows that break our hearts. Throughout The Resilience Toolkit, Linda Graham gives straightforward advice in building somatic, psychological, cognitive, and analytical awareness abilities that enhance readers’ confidence in their own talents in learning to deal with unexpected difficulties and crises in lives.

Because of perfectionism, we risk not seeing what children really need to grow emotionally safe. The simple, effective Circle of Security parenting techniques taught by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell are available in self-help form for the first time.